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  By: Ellis, et al.  S.B. No. 168
         (In the Senate - Filed January 5, 2007; January 29, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  February 26, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 4, Nays 0; February 26, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the State Bar of Texas fee to provide legal services to
  the indigent.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (j), Section 81.054, Government Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
         (j)  The supreme court shall set an additional legal services
  fee in an amount of $65 to be paid annually by each active member of
  the state bar except as provided by Subsection (k). Section 81.024
  does not apply to a fee set under this subsection.  [This subsection
  expires on September 1, 2007.]
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
  legislative session.
 
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